As you know, Yahoo Messenger is one of the most popular instant messenger application in my country and it could be in the world. But what pissing me off is, the version of yahoo messenger for Linux did not upgraded since 2003.
According to wikipedia the last public version of Yahoo! Messenger for Unix was released in September 2003, while an unofficial beta (v1.0.6) from a Yahoo! employee was released around the same time.
But they keep upgrading the version for Mac? And now it is version 3.0.1 for the current beta released on March 26, 2010.
Yahoo Messenger has some great features that was making it so popular, and most of our customers was familiar with it, although there is an alternative like gyachi, kopete, pidgin, and empathy, our customers prefer to use Yahoo Messenger instead of those alternative instant messengers, and why? Read more…